Donald Trump also commented on the case of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and the abandonment of Italian boxer Angela Carini in the ring. During a rally in Atlanta, the former US president revived the fake news about the Algerian's sexuality. From the stage, Trump recounted his version of the boxing match of August 1 at the Paris Olympics, when Carini abandoned the match that ended in just 46 seconds after a right hand received from her opponent. “An Italian champion faced off in the ring with a man who had made the transition, a good male boxer. He hit her twice so hard that she didn't know what was happening.”
The attack on Kamala Harris who wants to “beat women for tolerance”
Already critical of the opening ceremony of the Games, Trump promised that with him in the White House “men will not participate in women's sports”. The Carini-Khelif affair is becoming an argument for Trump to attack Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. From his podium in Atlanta, he declared that if the American vice president wins the next presidential election, “the parody of the Paris Olympics will come to America, when we host the Olympics in Los Angeles”. And he then insulted Harris, calling her a “radical trans activist who wants to let men beat women in the name of tolerance”.
The controversy over Imane Khelif's sexuality
After winning the match against Italian Carini after his opponent retired, Khelif beat Hungarian Luca Hamori three times in the ring, who on the eve of the match had attacked his opponent by saying that he should “fight a man”. Khelif and Taiwanese Lin Yu-Ting were disqualified in 2023 by the IBA led by Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev on the occasion of the World Boxing Championships for failing tests that were never specified, but which did not concern testosterone levels. The president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, once again referred to these cases, reiterating in Paris: “These are women born and raised as women, they must be respected”.
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